Trees in Breeze

Trees In Breeze.  Watercolor and Crayon. Approximately 9.5 x 10 inches.

Three colors of watercolor (quin burnt orange, indanthrone blue, and nickel azo yellow) and two brown gray crayon colors on 300 lb cold press by Kilimanjaro.

You can see an earlier version HERE.
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October 28, 2016 at 08:38AM

This Too; A Gift

This Too; A Gift.  Watercolor and Crayon About 25 x 17 inches.

I had a wild hair this morning.  I decided to paint big, and I decided to pull out a sheet of hot press paper.  If you haven't tried hot press paper, it's super smooth think poster board (priced like watercolor paper), and it handles the water and paint completely differently.  Watercolor artists say that hot press should allow me to paint wet in wet, one layer, easy lifting, with lots of intense color. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?  I couldn't get intense color at all with just watercolor, and then started to journey into opaque watercolor, and finally crayon.

Too many colors to even list!
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October 20, 2016 at 04:05PM

One Yellow Tree

One Yellow Tree.  Watercolor & Crayon. Approximately 10 x 8 inches.

I get kind of obsessed with fall colors on the trees, and although it seems like a relatively brown fall (it's been hot here in Cincinnati, even though we're half way through Oct), I'm trying to create what I want to see in my paintings.
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October 15, 2016 at 01:27PM